:: getting burned in effigy by an angry mob :: okay wow, so your anger is very valid and I want to start by acknowledging that

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

A commendable Edmund Fitzgerald cover. (The sinking was 50 years ago today.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JLU...

I would simply not piss off my base instead of telling my base to shut up after I pissed them off but hey I’m not a senator. (And this is one of the better senators!)

I agree with this but would settle for "you have to go someplace that sucks to do it." If you want to do some stupid six-leg parlay you should have to say it aloud to a person through a little microphone at an OTB that's lit like the MTA offices in the original Taking Of Pelham 123.

Bugonia was excellent. Crusher actors and takes a lot of risks.

Mayor Secretary Pete…..welcome to the resistance

This gets at the heart of the kayfabe senators are putting on and how they hide behind process — and each other — in ways that should eventually lead to full filibuster nuking

Dem senators are in a dangerously out of touch information silo especially the handful who still hang out on X: The Big Wet Nazi App

Reupping The Ringer plan: Senators don’t want to be jerks to each other? Easy solution. You step down. Governor appoints a comedian. They troll everyone mercilessly during a six day filibuster. Ted Cruz is crying. Republicans cave. Comedian steps down. Governor reappoints you. Everyone wins.

The idea that voters are going to have a specifically rational, policy-based response instead of just a "screw the incumbent party" thermostatic midterm election is basically innumerate at this point.

Echoing some points I made yesterday. Sen. Kim is a great examples of a center-left Democrat who pushed out some ossified leadership and reformed his state party as part of his run.

I want a Ms. Rachel media training video with puppets and zero change in tone

Republicans: Give us what we want or we shoot this puppy Democrats: Well what are you gonna do it’s a puppy better compromise [six months later] Republicans: Hey we need to talk again Democrats: Wow that is a lot of puppies oh my god is that a howitzer

The caucus’s deference to one another is the problem not just Schumer. They’re not going to elect a leader who will publicly call them out for hiding behind off-cycle and retiring members. Even the handful of progressive senators don’t go after their peers in a meaningful way.

Every short-term shutdown cave leads to worse long term consequences. Classic ratchet effect.

The base can handle some kayfabe but not when Republicans are torching the constitution and abducting people off the street.

Senate primary recruitment is so much tougher than for other races. But if there’s any cycle where someone goes for it instead of waiting their turn it should be this one.

inside you are two Angus Kings

good statement; caving on the heels of a bunch of odd-year electoral victories, in particular, is baffling

Sen. Coons is a no, but this is the kind of enabling cover I'm talking about. If other senators were willing to go on TV and call them out, the cavers would be likely to back off. The level of deference and privilege they extend to one another is actually corrosive.

I wonder if the other senators are giving Schumer cover because of how much pavement he ate last time he went on TV to explain a bad deal like this

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

yes senator they're roasting you on Bluesky, sir yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir

IMO the bad deals don't happen if a dozen other Democratic senators are out there ragging on the cavers by name. Even the handful of progressive senators rarely if ever go there -- the body remains an elitist, anti-democratic institution.

Purging the miscellaneous cable box, thumbing my nose at god, daring something to break

This popped up in my feed so often I listened to Rumours again and yeah, damn. Worth a revisit if it’s been a minute for you, too.

Not enough of these guys fear primaries.

What are the other single day turning point events in world history that rival D-Day? Trying to check my recency and U.S. bias as I’m going through a book on the invasion.

This essay is one of the greatest indictments of how mainstream media outlets, especially the Times, repeatedly tried to water down Trump's comments, to the point of inaccurately presenting someone affiliated with an armed right wing militia group in Charlottesville as a Peaceful Statue Enjoyer.

Human Power and Mechanical Advantage: The Bicycle as Liberatory Technology (1817 to Present)

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

That’s what he says now but way till he finds out how what a cool hang John Cornyn is

It’s like he’s trying to piss off William Jennings Bryan specifically

First Cybertruck I’ve seen with a compelling paint job. That said this is exactly the color car I wanted when I was 13.

Good thread. And a great example of the NYT framing a progressive advocacy group going through a period of chaotic management and labor conflict as Wokeness Gone Too Far.

Men will literally record the seminal album Nebraska by themselves in a Colts Neck bedroom before semi-reluctantly going to therapy

Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling? Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it: www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

If candidate and campaign effects are actually very small — or parties have basically fought to equilibrium — that obviates like 98% of political punditry not to mention policy preferences disguised as electoral advice.

Update: baby loves it. Dog *really* loves it especially at meal times. I’m gonna lower the chair 1.5” and glue some felt to the bottoms too.

I think about this post every day 🧪

So amazingly, the impeachment movement is blowing up massively and there is going to be a huge rally on the national mall to push for it. Dropkick Murphys are going to be there! You should come!

It's really cool that some of the original sit-inners were present for the unveiling of this memorial. www.oklahoman.com/picture-gall...

These are crimes against humanity. None of us is capable of truly internalizing suffering at this scale. Elon Musk and many other members of the Trump Administration should be put on trial at The Hague.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact

While more elite institutions have routinely failed to combat fascism the humble jury remains a bulwark.

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.